Pinewood
New York correspondent
Hello,
I have recently purchased a copy of the two volume set Birds of New York by Elon Howard Eaton. Albany, New York State Museum, 1910, 1914. The work is a complete reference work on the birds of this state, with lengthy descriptions of birds, maps, charts and some photographs. The most important part of this work are the 106 color plates, made from the paintings of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, an artist and ornithologist, who taught at Cornell University.
The plates have been printed as a separate book and as a portfolio, but I think the full two volume book keeps the plates in better shape.
This work is full of all sorts of curiosities like calling the house sparrow, the English sparrow, which went out of fashion more than fifty years, ago. The glossy ibis is listed as a visitant, but it currently migrates to parts of New York State, regularly.
The book is available online at:
http://www.archive.org/stream/birdsofnewyork11eato#page/n6/mode/1up
I am going to try to upload the illustration of jaegers, which I reduced for this post.
If I get any feedback, I will start quoting from the book, when I write about birds from my patch.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur Pinewood
I have recently purchased a copy of the two volume set Birds of New York by Elon Howard Eaton. Albany, New York State Museum, 1910, 1914. The work is a complete reference work on the birds of this state, with lengthy descriptions of birds, maps, charts and some photographs. The most important part of this work are the 106 color plates, made from the paintings of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, an artist and ornithologist, who taught at Cornell University.
The plates have been printed as a separate book and as a portfolio, but I think the full two volume book keeps the plates in better shape.
This work is full of all sorts of curiosities like calling the house sparrow, the English sparrow, which went out of fashion more than fifty years, ago. The glossy ibis is listed as a visitant, but it currently migrates to parts of New York State, regularly.
The book is available online at:
http://www.archive.org/stream/birdsofnewyork11eato#page/n6/mode/1up
I am going to try to upload the illustration of jaegers, which I reduced for this post.
If I get any feedback, I will start quoting from the book, when I write about birds from my patch.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur Pinewood
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